Tile ceiling



(No Model.)

J. H. BRIGHT.

TILE CEILING.

Patented Apr. 15, 1890 l l I I I l I I l I I l I L I ll QWi/cmeooeo UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. BRIGHT, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

TILE CEILING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. %25,652, dated April 15, 1890.

Application filed February 28, 1889. Renewed March1'7, 1890. Serial No. 344,076. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES II. BRIGHT, of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tile Ceilings; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a top plan view of a portion of a ceiling, illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a tile detached.

My invention is an improvement in hanging fire-proof ceilings, and its object is to simplify, cheapen, and improve the construction of the same; and it consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts and in the peculiar formation of the ceiling-tiles, as will be clearly understood from the following description and claims.

Referring by letters to the drawings, A A designate tubular hangers, so made for the purpose of both lightness and strength, and which are arranged parallel with each other in the horizontal plane of the ceiling at equal distances apart.

B B designate the ceiling-tiles, all of which are duplicates. The tiles each have a proj ecting lateral lip O at one side and flush with the top surface thereof. At the other side of the tile is a laterally-proj ectin g lip D flush with the bottom of the tile, and from the upper edge of the tile, at the side next lip D, rises a vertical flange E, the upper portion of which is turned horizontally out-ward into a lip e. Theheight of said flange is such that if two tiles be laid together with their respective lips G andD lapping the lip e of one tile will rest upon or over the lip O of the other, as shown.

In practice the tubular hangers, which may be gas-pipe, are placed a distance apart corresponding to the width of tiles B. A row of tiles is laid between the first hanger and wall with the lip O of the tiles resting on the hanger. The next row of t-iles is placed so that lips e of flanges E rest upon lips C of the previously-laid tiles and above the hangers, while lips D pass below the hanger, as shown,

making a sufficiently-close joint between the tiles below the hangers. The other sides of the tiles are supported by-their lips 0 upon the next adjoining hanger, and so on for the entire ceiling. It will be observed that the hangers are completely shut in or covered by the lapping lips of the tiles, and are protected thereby from external injury; also, that one side of each tile is supported directly upon the hanger, while its other side is supported on the flange of the adjoining tile above the hanger.

, While tile ceilings have been made by the employment of double-lipped tiles and T or L hangers, yet these. have required the employment of clamps or fastening devices to secure one edge of the tiles to the hangers, and the latter have not been covered and protected. In my invention no fastening devices or clamps are necessary for suspending or securing the tiles, and the hangers are completely covered by the lapping lips and flanges of the tiles, and, being tubular, are

lighter and stronger in proportion to the metal therein than the angle-irons.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is 1. The tiles B, each having a lip O at one side at the top edge and on its other side a lip D at bottom edge thereof, and an upstanding flange E, having lip e at top, in combination 4 with the horizontal tubular parallel hangers, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the tubular parallel hangers A A with the tiles 13, having lips C on one edge and lips D and flanges E at their other edge, the lips C of one tile arranged to rest upon the hanger, and the flange E of another tile on the opposite side of the hanger resting upon lip 0 above the hanger, and lip D extending below the hanger, all substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myown I afflx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES H. BRIGHT.

lVitnesses:

' JAMES L. BLAIR,

JAMES T. Ronnnrs. 

